Necktie restorer



Aug. 20, 1929. E. SCHWARTZ NECKTIE RESTORER Filed July 6, 1927 INVENTOR. EDWARD JCHWARYZ ATTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 270, 1929. V

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Application filed July 6,

This invention has for its purpose the provision of an improved novel and useful device to take wrinkles out of neckties.

Neckties after use become wrinkled and crumpled which make them diflicult to tie.

My improved device does awa with all wrinkles and stretches the tie bac to its normal width, thus bringing the goods which is cut on a bias back into its original position, which even pressing with a hot iron fails to do. This stretching is more advantageous when used with knit ties, which become pulled into strings after a few tyings. No amount of pressing will widen the ties into their normal width.

By using my device any tie, and especially knit ties, are restored to their normal width and all wrinkles are removed without pulling the goods on a bias.

In order to secure better results the tie is dampened with water and pulled over the tree where it is left overnight. In the morning it is removed, restored to a smooth fiat condition.

Another advantage lies in'the expansibility of my device. The tie may be pulled into place and any desired expansion given to the tree.

A further advantage is the collapsible handle which makes the device adaptable to packing in grips and cases for traveling. The tie may be mounted, the handle collapsed and the device with the tie on it placed in a case for traveling. Upon removal it is ready for use.

A further advantage resides in the cheapness of cost ofmanufacturing. And a still further advantage is the ease with which the device lends itself to advertisin purposes.

The foregoing objects and a vantages are some of the more important of my invention which is more fully described in the drawings in which Fig. 1 shows my device in the compressed position.

Fig. 2 shows the same expanded with the handle dotted in the collapsed position.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 2. As'shown in Fig. 1 the device consists of three elementsa looped or substantially U shaped wire generally desi ated 1, a clip generally designated 2 and a andle generally designated 3. The U shaped wire 1 1s formed with a curved end as shown at A, which end is used to clip the device into-the tie. The open 192?. Serial in. 203,750.

each provided with a curved shoulder 5 then a substantially stralght portion 6 and a straight tip 7 at sub- :tantally right angles to said straight porion The clip 2 is made from a sin le piece of sheet metal, two margins of whic are rolled 1nto cylmders 8 to receive the tips 7'. At the lower end of said clip is another rolled cylinends of the wire are der 9 to receive the upper straight cross portion 10 of the handle 3. The shape of the wire handle 3, as shown is substantially a rectangular loop, but not necessarily so, it ma be an shape suitable for ripping.

n the at portion 11 of said clip 2 a small name plate or advertisin plate 12 may be inserted, by soldering, wefding, riveting or in any other suitable manner. Or the clip itself may be embossed as desired.

To use my device the tie is first dampened and the end 4 of the wire loop in the collapsed posit on as shown in Fig. 1 is slipped into the tie as far as desired. Then by turning the handle a half turn or to any position desired, the wires are ex anded as shown in Fig. 2. The action is really that of twistin the free ends of the wire loop, as the ends 7 ie in the plane of the loop when the same is fully expanded as shown in Fig. 2 and in a plane at right angles to the plane of the loop when the loop is fully contracted as shown in F i l The friction in the cylinders 8 is sufficiently great to hold the handle in any desired position.

After stretching as far as desired the han-' with straight tips, a clip member provided with two holes to frictionally hold said tips,

a wire handle provided at the upper end with a straight cross portion of wire and said mentioned clip member being provided with a hole at right angles to the tip holes to rotatably receive the straight cross portion of the wire handle. i

2. A necktie restorer comprising a substal'li-v tially U shaped wire member adapted to'slip provided near t substantially right angle'shoulders followed into a tie,-the legs of said wire member being eir outer ends with rounded by bends followed by straight tips extending in substantially the same direction as the legs,

va piece of sheet metal with opposit margins provided at one end witha straight cross portlion rotatably positioned in saidthird cylin- 3. A necktie restorer comprising a. substantially U shaped wire member adapted for insertion into a tie, and meansoperative on the open end of the U shaped wire member adapted for moving the legs thereof in or out,

said means comprising a handle hingedly connected to said member for folding there- 20 against.

EDWARD SCHWARTZ. 

